CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8400

64th Legislature

2015 Regular Session


Adopted by the Senate January 12, 2015 President of the Senate Adopted by the House January 19, 2015 Speaker of the House of Representatives	CERTIFICATE I, Hunter G. Goodman, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8400 as passed by Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. Secretary
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	Secretary of State State of Washington

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8400

Passed Legislature - 2015 Regular Session


State of Washington	64th Legislature	2015 Regular Session

By Senators Schoesler and Nelson

WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2015 Regular Session of the Sixty-Fourth Legislature;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Senate of the State of Washington, the House of Representatives concurring, That the following cutoff dates apply to all bills, memorials, and joint resolutions with the exception of budgets, matters necessary to implement budgets, matters that affect state revenue, initiatives to the legislature, and alternatives to initiatives to the legislature:

(1) Friday, February 20, 2015, the fortieth day, will be the final day to read in committee reports in the house of origin, with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committees;

(2) Friday, February 27, 2015, the forty-seventh day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committee reports in the house of origin;

(3) Wednesday, March 11, 2015, the fifty-ninth day, at 5:00 p.m., will be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;

(4) Wednesday, April 1, 2015, the eightieth day, will be the final day to read in committee reports on bills from the opposite house with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committees;

(5) Tuesday, April 7, 2015, the eighty-sixth day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committee reports on bills from the opposite house; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That after 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, the ninety-fourth day, neither house may consider any bills, memorials, or joint resolutions except initiatives to the legislature and alternatives to such initiatives, budgets and matters necessary to implement budgets, matters that affect state revenue, messages pertaining to amendments, matters of differences between the two houses, and matters incident to the interim and to the closing of the business of the 2015 Regular Session of the Legislature.